Current Affairs, April 2020

30th April, Current Affairs:

• Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor passed away
in Mumbai today. He was 67. Rishi Kapoor was diagnosed with cancer in 2018.
• A total of 1718 new cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, taking
the total number of COVID 19 cases to 33,050 in India.• T. S. Tirumurti
has been appointed as the next Ambassador or Permanent Representative of
India to the United Nations. He replaces Sayyad Akbaruddin. • Former
India football captain Chuni Goswami, who led India to the 1962 Asian Games
gold, passed away in Kolkata after a prolonged illness.

29th April, Current Affairs:

• Renowned actor Irrfan Khan passed away
in a Mumbai hospital after losing his battle with a rare form of cancer. He
was 54. • All Central government officials, including the outsourced
workforce, have been directed to immediately download the Aarogya Setu App
on their mobile phones.

27th April, Current Affairs:

• The King George Medical University in
Uttar Pradesh has become the first government hospital in the country to
successfully launch the plasma therapy treatment for the COVID-19 patients.
• The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) today noted that the States
have been advised to stop using rapid antibody test kits procured from
Guangzhou Wondfo Biotech and Zhuhai Livzon Diagnostics of China after it
found wide variation in their sensitivity despite early promise of good
performance for surveillance purpose.• The French Grand Prix scheduled
for June 28 was cancelled today due to the coronavirus pandemic.

26th April, Current Affairs:

• Retired IAS officer Sanjay Kothari took
oath as Chief Vigilance Commissioner of India today. • The first patient
who was administered convalescent plasma therapy on compassionate grounds in
Delhi has now fully recovered and was discharged today.• The number of
COVID-19 cases in the country has climbed to 26,496 while the death toll
rose to 824.

24th April, Current Affairs:

• National Panchayati Raj Day is
celebrated today. The day is also called National Local Self Government Day.
• Prime Minister launched the e-Gramswaraj Portal and Mobile app as a portal
to prepare and plan Gram Panchayat Development Plans.• India registered
1,752 new coronavirus cases today which is the biggest single-day spike
since the beginning of the pandemic - taking the total to 23,452. The number
of deaths rose to 723.

23rd April, Current Affairs:

• World Book Day is observed today. •
Lebanon became the first Arab country to legalize marijuana cultivation.
• World Earth Day was observed on 22nd April, 2020.

21st April, Current Affairs:

• Civil Services Day is observed today.
• Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) advised states not to use
rapid testing kits for the next two days, saying it will issue an advisory
after their teams carry out field validation of these equipment.

18th April, Current Affairs:

• World Heritage Day is observed today.
• The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to
154,188. More than 2,251,690 declared cases have been registered in 193
countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in
December. The number of COVID-19 cases in India has climbed to 14,378 while
the death toll rose to 480.

17th April, Current Affairs:

• RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced
to slash the reverse repo rate from 4 per cent to 3.75 per cent while
keeping the repo rate unchanged. He also announced 50,000 crore rupees
booster package for small and medium-sized industries to recover from the
lockdown.• The Centre has permitted the export of formulations made from
Paracetamol.• Today is celebrated as World Hemophilia Day.

15th April, Current Affairs:

• The Centre today notified a new set of
guidelines in light of the extension of the nationwide lockdown till 3rd of
May. • US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration
will stop US funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) accusing for
covering-up the spread of the novel coronavirus.• The world's most
famous cycling race Tour de France has been postponed in the wake of Corona
virus pandemic.

14th April, Current Affairs:

• The Government has decided to extend
lockdown till 3rd of May.• Nation remembers Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar on his
129th birth anniversary today.• All passenger train services of Indian
Railways including Premium trains, Mail, Express, Passenger and Suburban
Trains, Kolkata Metro Rail, Konkan Railway and other such passenger services
will remain suspended till the midnight of 3rd May.

13th April, Current Affairs:

• The retail inflation based on Consumer
Price Index (CPI) was 6.58% in February 2020 and 2.86% in March 2019.•
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted people on the occasion of Baisakhi
today.

12th April, Current Affairs:

• Maharashtra, Telangana and West Bengal
announce extension of lockdown till April 30.• Easter is being
celebrated across the globe today. • The United States has overtaken
Italy as the country with the highest number of deaths due to COVID-19
pandemic with the fatalities crossing 20,000.

11th April, Current Affairs:

• Most States today requested Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to extend the lockdown for two more weeks during the
Video Conference chaired by Mr Modi.• 1035 fresh confirmed cases of
novel Coronavirus or COVID- 19 have been reported in the country in the last
24 hours taking the total number to 7447. Out of these, 642 patients have
recovered and discharged from the hospitals, while 239 patients have died.

9th April, Current Affairs:

• The union government today sanctioned Rs
15,000 crore to strengthen the fight against the Covid-19 virus. The amount
has been released towards the 'India Covid-19 Emergency Response and Health
System Preparedness Package'.• The Odisha government today announced it
has extended the lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic till April 30, becoming
the first state to do so.• Former Vice President Joe Biden is now the
Democratic nominee for the American Presidential Race. Mr. Biden won the
democratic nomination after US Senator Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the
Presidential race.

8th April, Current Affairs:

• The Income Tax Department has announced
that it will release all pending income tax refunds upto Rs 5 lakh
immediately to help ease Covid-19 burden.• The Supreme Court has ordered
private medical labs across the country to not charge patients for testing
for Covid 19.

7th April, Current Affairs:

• World Health Day is being observed
today. It is celebrated on 7 April every year to mark the anniversary of the
founding of World Health Organization.• British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson has been shifted to intensive care unit (ICU) after his condition
worsened. • India today announced that it had rescinded its earlier ban
on the export of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which is now being
used in countries such as the U.S. as a possible line of treatment for
COVID-19.

6th April, Current Affairs:

• The salaries of Central ministers and
Members of parliament - starting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be
slashed by 30 per cent for the coming year in view of the coronavirus
outbreak. The Cabinet has decided to suspend MPLAD fund for two years from
2020-2021 to 2021-2022. He said, an amount to the tune of 7900 crore rupees
will be accumulated and deposited in the consolidated Fund of India to fight
COVID-19.• Mahavir Jayanti being celebrated across the country today.

5th April, Current Affairs:

• US President Donald Trump had requested
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply hydroxychloroquine tablets that can
be used to treat COVID-19 patients.• The number of confirmed novel
coronavirus cases in the country has climbed to more than 3,500 today while
the death toll rose to 77. The Coronavirus pandemic has killed more than
45,000 people in Europe, around 85 percent of them in Italy, Spain, France
and Britain.• The Olympic Council of Asia announced that the third Asian
Youth Games is to be held in China in November 2021.

4th April, Current Affairs:

• 601 fresh confirmed cases of novel
coronavirus or COVID- 19 have been reported in the country during last 24
hours taking the total number to 2902. • The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup
to be held in India in November postponed by the football’s world governing
body due to the worsening COVID-19 pandemic.

2nd April, Current Affairs:

• President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice
President, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and Information
and Broadcasting Minister, Prakash Javadekar haveextented their greetings on
the auspicious occasion of Ram Navami.• Tony Lewis, one of the men
behind the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method used in weather-affected limited
overs cricket matches, has died aged 78.• Wimbledon, the oldest Grand
Slam tennis tournament, has been cancelled for the first time since World
War-II because of the Coronavirus pandemic.• World Autism Awareness Day
is observed today.

1st April, Current Affairs:

• The International Olympic Committee and
the Japanese organisers have decided to hold the Olympics from July 23 to
August 8 in Tokyo next year. • The Centre has defined new domicile rule
for Jammu and Kashmir which includes those who have lived in the Union
Territory for 15 years.